Section Manager- Simulation Services

Ericsson; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Private medical care

Life insurance

Mental Help Line

Cafeteria Pluxee

Sports and integration activities

Job summary

Ericsson in Krakow is seeking a Section Manager to build and lead a new SW section within SIMS/EPO, shaping its direction and delivering software-driven UE simulation capabilities for 5G/6G. You will guide people, technology and delivery in a growing software environment.

You will establish a clear mission for the section, drive AI-enabled engineering workflows, and coach the team to high performance, with a focus on quality, efficiency and continuous improvement in a hybrid model requiring

Qualifications

• Proven people leadership experience and the ability to build trust, provide direction and enable others to succeed.
• Proven experience from software development, product development, simulation, test environments or a comparable engineering domain.
• Demonstrated ability to drive AI transformation and build strong AI software-development capabilities across a section, including hands-on understanding of AI-enabled engineering tools, responsible adoption, workflow redesign, competence development and measurable improvements in quality, speed and efficiency.
• The ability to connect strategic direction with practical execution and sustained follow-through.
• Strong stakeholder-management, communication, prioritization, and decision-making skills.
• Experience leading change and creating structure and momentum in an evolving organizational environment.
• A relevant university degree or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the new SW section, including its team identity, competence, structure and ways of working.
• Drive software-based and scalable UE simulation that supports digital end-to-end verification.
• Drive quality assurance across full-stack and baseband-focused testing, with strong observability and improved usability to enable earlier, more efficient verification of features, systems, capacity, robustness and stability.
• Ensure that simulator capabilities, interfaces, data, metrics, logs and APIs support increasingly automated and AI-enabled engineering workflows.
• Lead your team in the AI transformation of software development by embedding AI-enabled tools and practices across the engineering lifecycle, from requirements and design through implementation, testing, delivery and continuous improvement.
• Coach and develop employees, strengthen critical competencies and create an inclusive, accountable and high-performing environment.
• Ensure strong delivery performance, quality, predictability, risk management and continuous improvement.

Skills

People leadership

Software development

AI transformation

Stakeholder management

Change leadership

Education

University degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Join our Team

About this opportunity

We are establishing SW 9 as a new section within Simulation Services (SIMS/EPO) and are looking for an engaged, forward-looking Section Manager to build the team and shape its direction. The section will contribute to the development and evolution of Ericsson’s Digital UE Simulator capabilities for 5G and 6G.

Your mission

As Section Manager, you will lead people, technology and delivery in a growing software environment. You will establish a clear mission for the section, build an effective team and ensure that priorities, capabilities and ways of working support SIMS/EPO objectives.

What you will do

• Build and lead the new SW section, including its team identity, competence, structure and ways of working.
• Drive software-based and scalable UE simulation that supports digital end-to-end verification.
• Drive quality assurance across full-stack and baseband-focused testing, with strong observability and improved usability to enable earlier, more efficient verification of features, systems, capacity, robustness and stability.
• Ensure that simulator capabilities, interfaces, data, metrics, logs and APIs support increasingly automated and AI-enabled engineering workflows.
• Lead your team in the AI transformation of software development by embedding AI-enabled tools and practices across the engineering lifecycle, from requirements and design through implementation, testing, delivery and continuous improvement.
• Coach and develop employees, strengthen critical competencies and create an inclusive, accountable and high-performing environment.
• Ensure strong delivery performance, quality, predictability, risk management and continuous improvement.

You will bring

• Proven people leadership experience and the ability to build trust, provide direction and enable others to succeed.
• Proven experience from software development, product development, simulation, test environments or a comparable engineering domain.
• Demonstrated ability to drive AI transformation and build strong AI software-development capabilities across a section, including hands-on understanding of AI-enabled engineering tools, responsible adoption, workflow redesign, competence development and measurable improvements in quality, speed and efficiency.
• The ability to connect strategic direction with practical execution and sustained follow-through.
• Strong stakeholder-management, communication, prioritization, and decision-making skills.
• Experience leading change and creating structure and momentum in an evolving organizational environment.
• A relevant university degree or equivalent professional experience.

We work in hybrid model, min. 3 days from office

What do we offer:

• Annual bonus depending on the achievement of the company's goals and results
• Possibility to take advantage of the reduction of tax-deductible costs for creative work
• Financial awards and distinctions
• Private medical care for employee and their family (Medicover)
• Life insurance
• Mental Help Line
• Cafeteria system Pluxee platform: co-financing MultiSport or OK System card, lunch cards, and others
• Sports and integration activities (e.g. Football, Joga, raising team, climbing club)
• Company support (loans and grants)
• Possibility to participate in 3G / 4G / 5G... 6G technology projects
• Opportunity to participate in technical and interpersonal training conducted by international trainers
• Access to recognized learning platforms (Pluralsight, Skillsoft, Coursera)
• Opportunity to work in an international environment, also outside Poland

Why join Ericsson?

At Ericsson, you'll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what's possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world's toughest problems. You'll be challenged, but you won't be alone. You'll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.

Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.

Primary country and city: Poland (PL) || Krakow